The Iron Mask King.

These three words seem to have magical power, and at this moment, a spell is unraveled.

The tall man in front of him seemed to have received a big blow, and the three words with magic power pulled him back from reality at once, and he even forgot to breathe for a while, and the whole person stood there stiffly, and the hand slowly put down, hanging weakly on the side of his body.

I looked at him and didn't say a word.

And I don't know how long later, I saw his hand slowly raised again, but it was reaching out to his own face.

The hideous iron mask was taken off by himself.

A familiar face appeared in front of my eyes.

Although many years ago, when I was captured by Luosh's people on the way to Shengjing, I already knew about the Iron Mask King from General Ba's mouth, heard about his legendary experiences, and knew that his appearance was very similar to Huang Tianba, but when I really saw that handsome face, I still couldn't believe my eyes, and I only felt that everything should only happen in a dream.

But in a dream, how can there be such a real feeling?

In my dreams, how could I see Huang Tianba growing old?

He is the same generation as my parents, he is already over half a hundred years old, and no matter how handsome and beautiful a person is, when his youth is gone, all he will leave behind is vicissitudes and misfortunes. But he still has the flying demeanor of the jade face in the past, the outline of that face is still clear, the forehead is full, the bridge of the nose is straight, the angular lips are not thick or thin, and the whole face is handsome just right, and these are not the most similar places between him and Huang Tianba, the most similar is the pair of bright eyes that are almost amorous, beautiful shape, black and white, as if God gave him such a gift at the most pleasant time, and easily integrated the starlight in the sky into his eyes.

If Huang Tianba's eyes are a wine spring, the spring fragrance and wine are fascinating, then his eyes are this vast sea, deep and elegant, which makes people unable to extricate themselves.

And with such eyes, how many vicissitudes of life have been seen?

I looked into his eyes and seemed to see the vicissitudes of all these years.

Of course, the vicissitudes of life are not only in his eyes, I know from the mouth of General Ba that although the Iron Mask King is handsome, he is an iron-clad tough guy who conquers the four fields on horseback, and he has never cared much about his appearance, otherwise, he would not have worn an iron mask with a blue face and fangs all year round. A man like him naturally won't take care of his appearance like those women, or white-faced students, and the man I see now has a dark face, rough skin, and perfectly shaped lips that are all cracked by the sea breeze, and adds some discordant "ornaments" to such an excessively handsome face.

If those who regard their countenances as their lives see him "spoiling" themselves in this way, they are afraid to cry out: "Mourn in the sanctuary!" The sanctuary mourns! "That's it.

Looking at him like this, I don't know whether I am indulging in the past or indulging in the shock of him, and I can't take my eyes off it for a while.

After a long time, I said softly, "Uncle." ”

He looked at me as if he sensed something, and didn't speak immediately.

I spoke again, stammering, "I've always wanted to see you. ”

I have a lot to say to you.

He was silent for a while, but said slowly: "But I really didn't expect to see you." I always thought that maybe one day, Huaiyin would come to see me. At this he paused, then looked at me again, and I saw a clear look of loss in his glance, and then he said, "You don't look like your mother at all." ”

I laughed.

But for some reason, tears poured up at once, almost bursting out of my eyes, but I just gritted my teeth and endured it, and even said with a smile: "However, there are some people who have seen me and my mother, and they all say that I am like him." ”

He looked at me for a while, still shaking his head, and said lightly, "You're not her." ”

“……”

At this moment, I seemed to understand.

In the eyes of many people, I have a temperament like my mother, but in his eyes, I don't look like my mother, and I don't even have a similar appearance that reminds him of the memories of the past, and no matter how much my temperament looks like her, I am not her.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but smile awkwardly.

It's as if an inferior counterfeit has been put in front of a person who really understands, and all the crappy ornaments have become a kind of joke.

He didn't notice it at all, or even if he did, he didn't care about the embarrassment and loneliness in my heart, and only asked, "What about your mother?" Is she coming? ”

“……”

I fell silent for a moment.

If before, I would have argued with Xue Qian, but now, the Iron Mask King is standing in front of me, and the kind of light in his eyes when he mentions my mother can't hide anything, at this time, if you want to talk about between them, or if he has no admiration for my mother, it will be a lie with his eyes open.

So, when that sentence came out, I also felt a little difficult.

"She's gone."

As soon as the words fell, the iron mask he held in his hand fell to the ground with a clatter, and the heavy voice echoed in the spacious room, magnified countless times, rumbling endlessly, and shaking people's hearts.

He froze for a moment and looked at me, "What did you say?" ”

"My mother, she died."

“……”

"It's been many years."

After saying this, I calmed down, but I couldn't say anything else, especially looking at the face that was as dark as an iron mask and full of resoluteness, a crack suddenly appeared at this moment, and his throbbing and dazed were all exposed at this moment, in the infinite flickering light in his eyes.

"She's gone?"

"Yes."

"Huaiyin, she's dead?"

"Yes."

"How-dead?"

"I left Xichuan when I was very young, and she passed away the day after I left." I said in a nasal voice, "No one told me how she went." Her father also did not enshrine her spiritual position in the temple of the Yan family. ”

At this point, I can't go on.

Not only did the irrepressible pain in my heart come up, but I also saw that the Iron Mask King's eyes were also red at this moment.

He gritted his teeth, and the outline of his face appeared with force, and I could even hear his teeth clucking, and suddenly, he turned around, walked to the huge chair in a few steps, reached out and held the armrest of the chair, and squeezed it hard, as if he could only rely on that to support himself.

I just wanted to comfort him, but before I could say anything, I saw him suddenly reach out and slap it on the armrest!

Hearing a loud "click", the wide chair was smashed in half by his palm, and suddenly the sawdust splashed, and the wooden chair collapsed with a bang. I was startled, and subconsciously took two steps back, only to see him turn around and walk in front of me again, his face was pale, but his eyes were red, his chest was rising and falling violently, and he was panting heavily, as if a flame was burning in his chest.

He struggled like this for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "She shouldn't be." ”

"......" I looked at him stupidly.

He gritted his teeth and said, "She shouldn't be." ”

“……”

"She shouldn't have been so short-lived, no matter what others do to her, she shouldn't have been so short-lived."

“……”

"Although I know that the matter on her heart is very heavy."

I looked at the Iron Mask King who was so excited, but desperately suppressed my own Iron Mask King, only to feel that something in my chest seemed to be desperately swelling and surging, as if it was about to pour mountains and seas and destroy everything.

She shouldn't have been so short-lived.

However, the matter in her heart is very heavy.

At this moment, I can't even think about what my mother was like at the beginning, why was her heart so serious?

I smiled sadly, but to make him feel better, and to make myself more acceptable, and said, "Maybe there is something that makes it difficult for her to bear it anymore, right?" ”

The Iron Mask King's eyes were almost bloodshot red, and when he looked at me, his gaze became hot.

"She was forced by her father to marry him back then, but in the end-" When I said this, my voice choked slightly, and I smiled reluctantly: "But I was driven out of the Yan family, and in the end, at the foot of the West Mountain, I relied on those students and monks to get by." I'm a woman, I-"

Before I could finish my sentence, the Iron Mask King suddenly frowned.

"Persecution?"

I looked up at him.

Two deep furrows twisted out of his good-looking eyebrows, and he looked at me and said, "Who sued you that your mother was forced by your father to marry him?" ”

“……”

I was dumbfounded.

Subconsciously: "No, isn't that the case?" ”

However, this was told to me by the fearless monk himself, he was the one who had been with my mother at the beginning, and he had always watched my father and mother meet and finally united, and since I was a child, he has always loved me very much, and it can be called favoritism, can he still lie to me?

No, I don't believe it.

But, if he didn't lie to me, then what did the Iron Mask King mean?

I hurriedly said, "So, you mean, my mother was not forced to marry my father?" ”

The Iron Mask King didn't answer this question immediately, but squinted his eyes slightly, and immediately remembered something, and a sneer flashed on his face: "That's the one who fearless told you, right?" ”

I nodded hurriedly.

"Hmph," he shook his head coldly: "This person, a handful of years, has not been sober all these years." ”

I looked at him in more and more amazement: "So, what the hell is going on?" I heard Uncle Fearless say that my father locked up my mother for more than two years before forcing her to agree to this marriage, isn't that true? ”

The Iron Mask King sighed and shook his head.

"Of course not."

“……”

"Who is Huaiyin? After being locked up for two years, you agreed to marry him? He sneered and said, "If that's the case, then I'll snatch her to the grassland and lock her up for the rest of my life." ”

I was stunned, and before I could say anything, I heard him laugh at himself and said, "But, if she is such a person, I will not rob her, let alone lock her up." ”

“……”

"I won't even look at her."

He was handsome, and although Shaohua had passed away, his natural handsome appearance, especially that strong, manly masculinity, still made him more attractive than many young men. And his smile seemed to suddenly inject a warm current into the world of the strong and resolute man, a soft breeze, like the sun on the ice, brilliant and brilliant.

That feeling is exactly the same as Huang Tianba at the beginning!

When I looked at him, I felt so sad that I could hardly hold back my tears.

But I still suppressed the excitement at the moment, after all, he and I still have time, we can solve a lot of doubts, a lot of problems, and now, I decided to figure out what is in front of me first.

I said, "You mean, my mother wasn't forced to marry my father?" But, my father held her for two years—"

"It's not that he locked up your mother for two years, it's your mother who locked herself up for two years."

"What?!" My eyes widened suddenly: "She locked herself up for two years? ”

"Yes."

"Why? Why did she lock herself up? ”

"Because," the Iron Mask King's handsome face also revealed a hint of sorrow, and even his voice couldn't help but become hoarse: "Because her heart is moved." ”

“……”

"Decades of Qing cultivation, just because of your father, are all in vain."

For a while, I felt that the blood in my whole body froze, and my heart beat suddenly, which made both ears buzz and hurt. I looked at him incredulously, looked at him for a long time, and said dryly: "Heart-moving? ”

"Yes, she said, she said that when she had just arrived in Xishan and was still looking at the scenery, someone invited her over for tea."

“……”

"Then she followed the man to the pavilion in the back mountain, where she met your father."

“……”

"Together, they drank a cup of tea."

The poison on my body has obviously been relieved by Xue Muhua, but now I am breathing urgently, as if something heavy has suddenly come and pressed on my heart, making it so difficult for me to breathe every time. I took a deep breath with all my might, and when I looked at the Iron Mask King, the corners of my eyes were almost red.

"And then, what happened to them?"

"Later? I heard that your father rushed back to Chengdu to get married, but he left the bride in his wedding hall, saying that he already had someone else in his heart and decided to marry someone else. That 'someone else' is, of course, your mother. ”

“……”

"But when your father went to her again and asked her to marry him, she refused to see him."

“……”

"She locked herself up."

“……”

"Your father, I want to see her, but I also know that if she can't figure it out by herself and force her, she can only be forced to a dead end."

“……”

"So your father sent someone to guard her every day and bring her food, and as soon as she opened her mouth, he would immediately rush to see her and wait for her to give him an answer."

The Iron Mask King said, laughing: "This is what the fearless monk said, your mother was imprisoned by your father for two years. ”

“……”

"He's a dead brain, I know he has a deep affection for your mother, just because he's like this, so no matter what your father does, he thinks it's your father who is harming your mother, and even later, no matter how your mother explained this matter to him, he only thought that your father was bullying her, and locked her up for two years before forcing her to marry your father."

“……”

The Iron Mask King was still talking, but I couldn't listen to anything anymore.

When he told me that he had completely overturned my previous cognition, those past events that had been sealed in my memory, those past events of many years, suddenly appeared so clearly in front of me, but it was like a puff of smoke and dust, and once again confused my eyes.

Only his words, like thunder, echoed in his ears endlessly-

Because her heart is moved......

Decades of cultivation have been in vain just because of your father......

I was moved......

I was moved......

She was not forced to her father, nor did she complain, but she was moved, and it was because she was moved that she would marry. The two of them are not forced to be together, but they are truly happy.

But why?

If it is a happy relationship, why does she have to lock herself up for two years?

If it is the two lovers, if she is attracted to my father, if she has locked herself up for two years, and after coming out, she decides to marry my father, then this qiē is her own choice, no one forced her, and no one forced her...... However, why does she always have only a faint smile and almost cold eyes in her memory, and why does the life of the three of us never make me feel her enthusiasm, only her standing there from afar, looking at our coldness like an outsider?

Didn't she choose my father and choose this qiē?

I only felt that the grievances that had been ignored all these years were suddenly blocked in my throat, and tears were almost rolling out of my dry heart, and I looked up at the Iron Mask King, and when I almost couldn't help but ask, suddenly, the words he had just said flashed in my mind-

Two words in that sentence, to be exact.

Cleansing.

Decades of Qing ......

I suddenly felt a buzz in my head.

It was as if something was beating me desperately, and in the midst of that huge blow, those noisy words, and countless scenes in my memory flashed in front of my eyes like a marquee.

I've spent countless nights with her.

She took the broken candle and looked seriously at the letter sent to her by someone and from nowhere.

The candle light was extinguished, shining on her half-length hair, and many silver threads mixed with it were lit up into a snow-colored light under the candle flame......

Her deep brows and the worry in her eyes seemed to be dozens of years old all of a sudden.

I raised my head tremblingly and looked at the Iron Mask King, "You just said that she-Qing Xiu, what's the matter?" ”

The Iron Mask King glanced at me, without a trace of expression on his face, and said calmly, "You don't know that your mother, before marrying your father, was a nun, right?" "Two years?

If it is the two lovers, if she is attracted to my father, if she has locked herself up for two years, and after coming out, she decides to marry my father, then this qiē is her own choice, no one forced her, and no one forced her...... However, why does she always have only a faint smile and almost cold eyes in her memory, and why does the life of the three of us never make me feel her enthusiasm, only her standing there from afar, looking at our coldness like an outsider?

Didn't she choose my father and choose this qiē?

I only felt that the grievances that had been ignored all these years were suddenly blocked in my throat, and tears were almost rolling out of my dry heart, and I looked up at the Iron Mask King, and when I almost couldn't help but ask, suddenly, the words he had just said flashed in my mind-

Two words in that sentence, to be exact.

Cleansing.

Decades of Qing ......

I suddenly felt a buzz in my head.

It was as if something was beating me desperately, and in the midst of that huge blow, those noisy words, and countless scenes in my memory flashed in front of my eyes like a marquee.

I've spent countless nights with her.

She took the broken candle and looked seriously at the letter sent to her by someone and from nowhere.

The candle light was extinguished, shining on her half-length hair, and many silver threads mixed with it were lit up into a snow-colored light under the candle flame......

Her deep brows and the worry in her eyes seemed to be dozens of years old all of a sudden.

I raised my head tremblingly and looked at the Iron Mask King, "You just said that she-Qing Xiu, what's the matter?" ”

The Iron Mask King glanced at me, without a trace of expression on his face, and said calmly, "You don't know that your mother, before marrying your father, was a nun, right?" ”